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Cropping a video file in ffmpeg

analyze traffic remotely over ssh w/ wireshark
When using tcpdump, specify -U option to prevent buffering.

do a full file listing of every file found with locate

List contents of jar
useful to find the list of dependencies

Limit the cpu usage of a process
This will limit the average amount of CPU it consumes.

Print environment information.
Print environment (system) information using Perl.

print battery , thermal , and cooling info

find out how many days since given date
You can also do this for seconds, minutes, hours, etc... Can't use dates before the epoch, though.

Google text-to-speech in local language or language of choice
Google text-to-speech in your local language or in language of choice via country code switch (ISO 639-1).

Backup sda5 partition to ftp ( using pipes and gziped backup )


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